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Wednesday, 5 June 2013

Amitie BOM Bring Me Flowers

This is my third Amitie Textiles BOM and, as much as I loved the quirky random lunacy of the Gypsy Wife, my mind does love symmetry and pattern and order. The Circle Game BOM gave me that. And Bring Me Flowers is doing the same. It's quirky and fun and original - like all of Jen Kingwell's BOMs - but it is neat and tidy and ordered and hence my A type mind is now in BOM heaven.

Month 2 brought Drunkard's Path flower blocks. These blocks are 8" finished so each flower head is in a 4" square so those quarter circles are in a 2" square. In my stupid mind, I had thought it would be possible to machine piece those quarter and half square circles nesting within 2" squares. Much swearing and unpicking later, I realised that Danielle had the answer in a comment on Instagram. They should be appliquéd using the same method I used for the centre circles in month 1. Here Jen would interject that they should be hand pieced but let me fess up right now that I don't have the hand piecing skills or inclination so I am muddling through and cheating on the hand piecing element of this BOM.

And so, quick as a flash and in between doing my accounts which is a very boring job and requires distraction, I cut out cereal boxes and aluminium foil and cut fabric and wrapped and pressed then appliqued and those blocks were done and dusted, leaving a little time over for one bonus block made up of little hexagon flowers in Liberty lawns.

And for those of you who are doing this BOM and wondering why my blocks look different to yours, I like to mix the fabrics Jen sends with my own fabrics just for fun.

I love these flower blocks, yours is gorgeous! I just did baby carriage block for Green Tea and sweet beans that is quite similar. I was able ti machine piece it and it worked! I used my curvemaster machine foot which helped soooo much. It was fiddly though ;)